People & Places

Kevin Maloney will assume the role of vicepresident, excess casualty for Allied World U.S. His focus will be manging andexpanding Allied's Real Estate & Financial Institutionspractice.

Zurich appointed Patrick Healy to head ofinternational programs for Zurich North American commercial. Healysucceeds Reto Arrigoni and has served as theinternational industry leader for the East and South regions.

Patrick McCaleb and Phil Groveare joining EPIC as principals at their new Fresno location.The two have a combined 60 years of industry experience and willoversee growth of EPIC's new location and clientrelations.

AonRisk Solutions chose Janette Wilcox to beresident managing director of its Jacksonville location. Wilcox waspreviously an underwiting director for CNA and has 17 years ofexperience in the industry.

Barbara Gall was appointed senior vicepresident of technology practice for Lockton's San Jose,Calif. branch. She will focus on thebroker's expanding San Francisco Bay Area andwestern region presence.

Mergers & Acquisitions

Digital Insurance acquired Strategic EmployeeBenefits Services (SEBS) of the Midwest. The acquisition willexpand Digital's presence in the region. SEBS will be knownas Digital Benefit Advisors, a division of Digital.

New Programs

Hiscoxdeveloped a technology portfolio with several individual modules inorder to offer complete coverage of risk profiles of businesses.The modules include:

• Technology company breach of contract coverage
• Coverage for claims that result from breaches of confidentialpersonal or corporate information
• Coverage for cost of response to data breaches
• Compensation for loss related to a hack and reimbursement forrepair or replacement of hacked assets
• Cyber extortion coverage
• Online content protection, including social media
• Miscellaneous professional liability coverage.

EverestNational Insurance Co. has partnered with NIF Group Inc. tolaunch a non-profit social service program. The partners hope touse their similar histories and expertise to cater to a widevariety of social service providers.

Fulcrum announced a GL program for full-service luxuryhotels and resorts. The program includes:

• Green reputation coverage
• Spa services liability
• Non-employment discrimination liability.

IronHealth, a division of Ironshore Inc.,introduced integrated delivery organization (IDO) coverage. The IDOprogram allows healthcare organizations to consolidate existing butseparate liability programs into one product. This featurewill address possible gaps in coverage when two organizationalstructures come together due to a merger or acquisition.

News

ICAT selected OneShield Dragon as its policy managementsolution. OneShield Dragon will allow ICAT to access acollaborative underwriter workbench that will automate andconsolidate workflow. This feature will minimize cost and maximizeefficiency of turn-around to producers.